Hiroshima August 6, 1945

[Major Tom]

Interesting fact, to me anyhow, is I was born almost to the minute when the 'bomb' hit Hiroshima. I was born on August 7, 1945 at 8:30 AM. Because of world time zones, bingo! Where's my prize??
Dad was in the Pacific Theater and received the news days later!

[Allen]

Interesting fact, to me anyhow, is I was born almost to the minute when the 'bomb' hit Hiroshima. I was born on August 7, 1945 at 8:30 AM. Because of world time zones, bingo! Where's my prize??

Well, maybe no prize for you but the prize for us is we developed the A-bomb before Germany and Japan.

The prize for Germany was the bomb wasn't completed soon enough.

The prize for Japan was we only had the two bombs.

[Major Tom]

Back in those days, a Mother spent a day or two when giving childbirth. Mom said the nursing staff had put small U.S. flags all over her room!

[JohnMOhio]

Allen, incorrect, we had 3 bombs.

[Allen]

Allen, incorrect, we had 3 bombs.

We set one off in the desert (here) to test, then the two that were gifted to Japan. We had an additional bomb and didn't drop it?

[bruce]

We had one core that could have been used. It was not at that time in a useable weapon. Google "demon core." The two bombs dropped saved 100's of millions of lives. Initially, it saved the lives of American soldiers and Japanese soldiers and civilians from needless death as a result of the planned invasion of the Japanese home islands. As well, it saved untold millions and millions of lives of people who would have starved to death as a direct result of the continuation of fighting. Without the two atom bombs being used, untold numbers of people would have faced lack of food due to the inability to work the land, transport crops to market, produce food products, etc. Sincerely. bruce.

[Allen]

We had one core that could have been used. It was not at that time in a useable weapon. Google "demon core." The two bombs dropped saved 100's of millions of lives. Initially, it saved the lives of American soldiers and Japanese soldiers and civilians from needless death as a result of the planned invasion of the Japanese home islands. As well, it saved untold millions and millions of lives of people who would have starved to death as a direct result of the continuation of fighting. Without the two atom bombs being used, untold numbers of people would have faced lack of food due to the inability to work the land, transport crops to market, produce food products, etc. Sincerely. bruce.

+1

[Phloating Phlasher]

Odd bit of trivia.
Much of the fissile material for "The Bombs" came from a surrendered German U-Boat that was transporting it to (IIRC Japan) but never made it because of the Nazi surrender.

[JohnMOhio]

Was not aware that the fission material came from a surrendered German U-Boat. Thanks for the added information Pflasher.

[PWC]

I didn't think the ore from the sub had been refined into fissionable material yet? How long would that take?

[Allen]

I have a book on how to make an atomic bomb somewhere. The book has other items and recopies too.

The section on the A-bomb began with "find a suitable source of Uranium-238 isotope. I lost interest after that.

[Mark in Ottawa]

Odd bit of trivia.
Much of the fissile material for "The Bombs" came from a surrendered German U-Boat that was transporting it to (IIRC Japan) but never made it because of the Nazi surrender.

I thought that the material came from the Belgian Congo and Northern Canada.

[lyman]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-234